U.S. Navy Dependents Return To Bahrain

Middle East Newsline

July 03, 2009

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- The U.S. Navy has begun facilitating the arrival of whatcould be thousands of dependents of American military personnel in Bahrain. Officials said the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet approved the return of thedependents for military and Defense Department personnel in Bahrain in June2009. They said any of the 3,000 personnel in Fifth Fleet headquarters couldinvite spouses and children to live in the Gulf Cooperation Council state.